A taxonomic catalog, including host and geographic distribution, of the species of the genus Gyropus Nitzsch (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Gyropidae)
Author
Valim, Michel P.
Author
Linardi, Pedro Marcos
text
Zootaxa
2008
1899
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274532
aa7a2f2b-ea55-4ae2-863a-93bf3bdde535
1175-5326
274532
Gyropus martini martini
(
Werneck, 1934b
)
Tetragyropus martini
Werneck 1934b
: 277
, fig. 3 (female habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 4 (male habitus, dorso-ventral view), fig. 5 (head, dorso-ventral view), fig. 6 (sternal plate), fig. 7 (female terminalia, ventral view), fig. 8 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 9 (male genitalia, dorsal view), fig. 10 (nymph, dorsoventral view.
Type
locality:
Brazil
, Rio de Janeiro, Corcovado.
Type
host:
Proechimys albispinus
(=
Trinomys albispinus
) (see remarks below). Typology:
Holotype
female, ‘allotype’ male, two male, three female, and one nymphal
paratypes
held by FIOC. There are
paratypes
of both sexes in alcohol, vial
74 in
support 8, at FIOC. One male and one female
paratype
were donated to BMNH.
Gyropus martini
,
Werneck 1936a
: 431
(citation).
Hopkins and Clay 1952
: 161
(checklist).
Gyropus martini martini
,
Werneck 1948
: 63
(new status, subspecies), fig. 49 (male gentitalia, dorsal view), fig. 50 (male genitalia, ventral view), fig. 51 (detail of the endomeres), fig. 52 (detail of the mesomeral plate).
Emerson and Price 1981
: 43
(host-parasite checklist).
Cicchino and Castro 1990
: 322
(checklist of
Gyropus
species on
Echimyidae
).
Cardoso-de-Almeida
et al
. 2003
: 235
(list of
type
material in Instituto Oswaldo Cruz).
Price
et al
. 2003
: 77
(checklist).
Distribution.
BRAZIL
(Rio de Janeiro).
Hosts. +
Trinomys albispinus
,
T
.
dimidiatus
(Günther) (Echimyidae)
.
Remarks.
The host specimen used by
Werneck (1934b)
in his description was identified by R.W. Haymann as
Proechimys albispinus
; later, the same host skin was identified as
Proechimys dimidiatus
(=
T
.
dimidiatus
) by J.
Moojen (
Werneck 1948
: 63). There are in Werneck’s collection six samples from differentes places of Rio de Janeiro state, all identified by J. Moojen as
Proechimys dimidiatus
. We believe that the name of the
type
host was result of misidentification, thus the only host species and the
type
host of
G
.
m
.
martini
is
T
.
dimidiatus
.